How to format your references using the Journal of Radiology Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Radiology Nursing. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Blatt, R. (2000). Push-button entanglement. Nature, 404(6775), 231–232.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts, L., & Jasny, B. (2008). HIV/AIDS: money matters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5888), 511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nesić, D., Hsu, Y., & Stebbins, C. E. (2004). Assembly and function of a bacterial genotoxin. Nature, 429(6990), 429–433.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Catherall, A. T., Eaves, L., King, P. J., & Booth, S. R. (2003). Magnetic levitation: Floating gold in cryogenic oxygen. Nature, 422(6932), 579.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Sapienza, A. M. (2004). Managing Scientists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Guerrini, A. (2014). Water Management in Italy: Governance, Performance, and Sustainability (G. Romano, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Salah, A., Outbib, R., & Gaber, J. (2012). Simulation and Control of PEMFCS Thermal Behavior. In M. S. Basualdo, D. Feroldi, & R. Outbib (Eds.), PEM Fuel Cells with Bio-Ethanol Processor Systems: A Multidisciplinary Study of Modelling, Simulation, Fault Diagnosis and Advanced Control (pp. 117–149). Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Radiology Nursing.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, December 13). Ancient Lost City Discovered Underground. IFLScience; IFLScience.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2016). Joint Information Environment: DOD Needs to Strengthen Governance and Management [Reissued on October 25, 2016] (GAO-16-593). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Monk, K. J. (2014). Effects of distractors and force feedback on an aimed movement task in a CDTI environment [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Brownell, K. D., & Nestle, M. (2004, January 23). The Sweet And Lowdown On Sugar. New York Times, A23.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Blatt, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Blatt, 2000; Roberts & Jasny, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Roberts & Jasny, 2008)
Three authors: (Nesić et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Catherall et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Radiology Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Radiol. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1546-0843
Scope	Advanced and Specialised Nursing Radiological and Ultrasound Technology